Monthly Archives: February 2010
ZFS data integrity tested
Robin Harris over at the ZDnet.com Storage Bits blog analyses a new UW-M paper analyzing the fault tolerance claims of ZFS: “File systems guard all the data in your computer, but most are based on 20-30 year old architectures that … Continue reading
FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap
Olivier Cochard-Labbé has added a roadmap page to the FreeNAS website: FreeNAS 0.8 roadmap. We can already see a positive impact from iXsystem‘s takeover of the FreeNAS project: “Refactor the build system” and the “one click binary installs”. Two features that … Continue reading
iXsystems iX-N4236 Orion II Server Series
The Orion II Storage Server & JBOD Storage Expansion Deliver Unparalleled Storage Density With Redundant Cooling and Powerful Intel® Technologies iXsystems have released the iX-N4236 Orion II Storage Server which is designed to handle storage-intensive tasks while remaining at an … Continue reading
Released: FreeNAS 0.7.1
The FreeNAS developers have released a small update/bugfix vresion, version 0.7.1: Majors changes: Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.9. Upgrade istgt to version 20100125. Upgrade msmtp to 1.4.19. Upgrade transmission to 1.76. Upgrade PHP to 5.2.12 (Thanks to Xin LI). Upgrade fuppes … Continue reading
How to avoid paying the high price of Cheap Storage
Unbelievably inexpensive networked storage options have emerged, but it’s a case of ‘False Economics 101.’ PCMag has a post advising how to avoid the pitfalls of cheap storage: The proliferation of huge, cache-laden SATA disks in the consumer market has … Continue reading
FreeNAS Development & Community activity (2009)
FreeNAS is a free network attached storage server (NAS server) that is under active development and improving with every release. Though its release number may indicate an alpha/beta product (version 0.7), FreeNAS is stable and can be used on production … Continue reading
